“Start with yourself”, “change yourself - and everything around will change”, the Orthodox version “save yourself - and thousands around will be saved”, do not condemn others, etc. Everyone has become so accustomed to these principles that have been instilled in us since childhood that they seem to be self-evident. But this is not the case. These are false attitudes that have been imposed on us by those in power with a very clear goal: to continue to do whatever they want, and not to worry about possible condemnation from others.
"Start with yourself" was originally an expression of the principle of humility, laid down in Christianity by Orthodoxy under the Emperor Constantine in the 4th century, when Orthodoxy was subordinated to the state and began to be used by the state in order to enslave citizens, transforming once free people into slaves. The modified Christian religion began to inspire people that all the lawlessness and arbitrariness of the authorities should only be resigned, not to look for the guilty outside, but to consider themselves to be guilty of everything. If the authorities or others do evil, no one can be blamed for this, you need to endure and blame yourself, because you have sins, and you suffer for these sins, you are to blame, and not those who do evil. Such a religion reliably guaranteed the state and the elite from revolutions, riots and popular discontent with the authorities.
Moreover, initially, Judaism and early Christianity did not have this servile lackey component. This is an installation specially made by political strategists of the Byzantine Empire. In Judaism, on the contrary, it is believed that man is a creator, the world around him is imperfect, he has lost its correctness, and the human task is to return the world to the correct state. It was because of this idea that so many revolutionaries were Jews. Early Christianity was also fundamentally revolutionary: Christ expelled the merchants from the temple with a whip, stigmatized the authorities of that time: the scribes and Pharisees. This was unacceptable for the authorities, and the authorities created for the lower classes an unctuous emasculated version of Christ: a sufferer who resigns himself to all the injustices. “Christ endured and commanded you,” the people were told, and the people were eating.
This worked until the early 20th century. The revolution in Russia swept away religion, and the people at first again believed in their own strength. In the capitalist world, similar processes were going on in the West: religion was a thing of the past. The spirit of entrepreneurship and faith in the power of the human mind and its creativity gave birth to the era of the "Roaring 20s". Science and technology developed by leaps and bounds, it seemed that progress could not be stopped. But then something went wrong. In Russia (USSR), an era of personality cult, authoritarianism, and then stagnation began. An economic crisis broke out in the West. After World War II, the elites realized that the excessive freedom of the people was dangerous to their rule. The elite replaced religion with a new religion: psychology. The cult of "normality" and "adequacy" was now supported by priests in white coats and their guides: popularizers of psychology, writers. Women had a special role, but more on that later.
In psychology, there are two possible ways to solve psychological problems. Materialistic and idealistic. Soviet psychology followed the first path: psychological problems depend on economic problems, therefore, to solve them, it is necessary to improve society, the economy, increase the material well-being of people, and eradicate individualism and selfishness. A person has problems, there is no job - so society should give him a job. There is no wife and family, which means that society must create conditions for him to start a family: to provide men with high wages, housing, provide a cultural life - affordable concerts, exhibitions, cultural events where men and women can meet.
In the USSR, foreign psychology was harshly criticized, Western psychologists were called bourgeois and considered unscientific. This was a plus, because it was in Western psychology that they began to actively promote the old religious norm of humility, now it appeared in the form of "Start with yourself." And the question of human psychological problems was solved in a diametrically opposite way. Socio-economic problems are not the cause of psychological problems, but the opposite. No normal work? It is your own fault, do work on yourself, get another education, move from place to place in search of work. No wife? You are to blame, you are not beautiful enough, you don’t do a beautiful haircut, you wear old glasses. It is clear that this approach stimulated the growth of consumption for notorious citizens:in an attempt to solve their psychological problems, people rushed to buy new cars and clothes. This is profit for capitalism. The era of brands was born. Now a person no longer paid for the useful characteristics of the product, but for improving his internal self-esteem and his psychological state from buying a new thing, which was supported by advertising and propaganda. It was possible to invest less and less in production, and get more and more profits, the main thing is to organize advertising. Acquisition of all new things naturally did not bring happiness, but following the recipes of psychologists and social ideologists, people only worked harder to get more money and buy something else for happiness. This is how neoliberalism was established in the West. Now a person no longer paid for the useful characteristics of the product, but for improving his internal self-esteem and his psychological state from buying a new thing, which was supported by advertising and propaganda. It was possible to invest less and less in production, and get more and more profits, the main thing is to organize advertising. Acquisition of all new things naturally did not bring happiness, but following the recipes of psychologists and social ideologists, people only worked harder to get more money and buy something else for happiness. This is how neoliberalism was established in the West. Now a person no longer paid for the useful characteristics of the product, but for improving his internal self-esteem and his psychological state from buying a new thing, which was supported by advertising and propaganda. It was possible to invest less and less in production, and get more and more profits, the main thing is to organize advertising. Acquisition of all new things naturally did not bring happiness, but following the recipes of psychologists and social ideologists, people only worked harder to get more money and buy something else for happiness. This is how neoliberalism was established in the West. Acquisition of all new things naturally did not bring happiness, but following the recipes of psychologists and social ideologists, people only worked harder to get more money and buy something else for happiness. This is how neoliberalism was established in the West. Acquisition of all new things naturally did not bring happiness, but following the recipes of psychologists and social ideologists, people only worked harder to get more money and buy something else for happiness. This is how neoliberalism was established in the West.
In the wake of the 2007 crisis in the West, the broad masses did not have any opportunities for overconsumption; on the contrary, the middle class began to slide into poverty, and the poor into poverty. But taught that only oneself, and not the elite and the government, should be blamed for troubles, people did not protest, but tried to survive. This worked especially successfully in capitalist Russia in the 2000s.
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Western psychology poured into the post-Soviet space in the 1990s. The people eagerly read books, listened to lecturers, TV presenters, and all these "authorities" said that only you are to blame for all the troubles. Not the government, which deprived you of the right to free housing, free education and health care, not the capitalists, who inflated prices hundreds of times, lowering the quality of products hundreds of times. Only you yourself. Religion was revived again with the same agenda, and now Seraphim of Sarov, allegedly, was broadcasting from every iron, teaching not to blame anyone, but to save himself, then everyone else will be saved. Esotericism (which it would be more correct to call babotherika) and all kinds of business coaches and personal growth trainings have multiplied, they all taught the same thing: do not judge others, do not look at others if you have any problems,only you are to blame for them.
Lenin taught that one should always ask the question: who benefits. Who benefits from such a religion, psychology, esotericism and business ideology? It is beneficial to those who steal our money, who do evil, and fear opposition from honest people. With the psychology "look for the reason in yourself", such opposition can be avoided.
Western psychology was deservedly called bourgeois in the USSR. It works to consolidate the power of the bourgeoisie. Turning to ourselves in search of a reason is beneficial to those who have deprived us of a well-deserved part of our common wealth. The 1% of the super-rich own over 60% of the world's wealth. This handful of people sets the laws for everyone else, incl. what people should believe, what to think, who to blame. But such an insignificant number of people would not have been able to maintain their power without the support of others. And here we are faced with the role of women in the modern system of inequality and exploitation.
How to change a fair world into an unjust one? Make the majority believe that they themselves are to blame for the fact that everything was stolen from them.
The principle “the reason is in you” naturally leads to the principles of condemning the poor and honoring the rich, and prohibiting helping the poor. In a mild form, it is “don’t give the hungry fish, give a fishing rod” (but it does not mention that the fish reservoir belongs to the capitalist, and you have to pay tax for fishing, and the loan fee for the fishing rod will be more than the amount of fish needed by the poor for life). In its extreme form, these are various forms of Nazism, calling for the destruction of the poor and the "inferior", the actual form today is femonazism. Taken together, this is the doctrine of social Darwinism that justifies inequality.
Social Darwinism is inherent in women by their nature. Their consciousness could not evolve above the level of female monkeys, and despite the external similarity with humans, women in their consciousness (and its most ancient and consciously uncontrolled part - the subconscious) continue to remain females of herd (schooling) animals. They choose the strongest male in the pack, the leader, and his associates as a sexual partner, and 90% of males do not have constant sex at all and do not reproduce. This is precisely the situation that persists in modern human society, where women have rights and privileges that exceed those of men.
In the history of mankind there was a period when the rights of women were infringed in comparison with men, the so-called. patriarchy. But it did not last long, because those in power, gold 1%, saw that reliance on strong and moral men did not allow immoral and thieves to come to power, and if thieves were in power, it would lead to revolution. All revolutions were carried out by men, but their fruits were used by women, who then destroyed all the gains of revolutions for men and rolled back the situation. To prevent any more revolution, the gold 1% staked on women and was not mistaken: women support any power only because it is power. This is how the herd instinct works in them. Under the Nazis, they support Hitler, under the communists - Stalin, under capitalism - Putin, they don't care, the main thing is that he is a male at the top of the power pyramid. How he got there - it does not bother them, “think about your business”, “do not envy”, “look for the reason in yourself” - social Darwinian norms close to a woman's heart.
Who is always in favor of injustice? Women. How do they justify this? The "inferiority" of the personality of the dissatisfied. At the same time, women always support the interests of the elites. Even feminists, who are considered "communists" in the West, who violently destroy "patriarchy" and "elites" at their rallies, are in fact loyally serving the same elites. It is to the elite that the feminists are credited with reorienting the left from the class struggle to the "gender" struggle. Instead of workers' rights, the left is now championing women's rights.
Start any dispute on social networks that directly or indirectly affects the interests of the elites or women, and immediately you are attacked by many couch psychologists who will begin to cling to the personality of the dissenter: "You are just a loser and envy", "do not envy", "go better work", "Look at yourself" and "start with yourself!" of course. It is profitable for the elites; they will not have to share the common wealth stolen from them with the masses.
And women will still get their share, this is guaranteed by vaginocapitalism. If the rich do not share with women, they will deny them access to sex. No oligarch can match the efficiency of making a profit with the help of his means of production with women. The main means of production of vaginocapitalists is their vagina, access to which they provide only for material goods, and literally make capital out of nothing, out of emptiness. But a capitalist, like a cash cow, is necessary for a vaginocapitalst, otherwise who will she milk? Not a proletarian. Therefore, vaginocapitalists are interested in maintaining capitalism. Capitalists, in turn, are more profitable to share only with women than with the whole people. Therefore, capitalism and vaginocapitalism go hand in hand and together parasitize on men. Ideologically, this system of parasitism is stabilized by the ideology of individualism, “starting from oneself”.
You cannot make the world a better place by “starting with yourself”, because the reason is not in us, but in THEM, in those who stole part of the common resources that belong to us. Who has created unfair conditions for the growth and development of the individual. It is necessary to change these conditions, to make them fair for everyone, it is necessary to divide all resources equally, because no one has more rights to anything than another. But to do this, you need to start not with yourself, but with them.
